2002 Breeding Herd Summary for Brazil, Canada and USA combined
MEASUREMENT Mean Upper 10% Lower 10%
Average female inventory 1111.22 2621.1 205.5
  Average parity 2.63 3.5 1.8
Replacement rate 60.73 33.86 86
Culling rate 41.44 23 60.14
Death rate 7.14 2.5 12.54
Ave parity of culled sows 4.02 5.7 2.2
Average gilt pool inventory 67.86 153.4 0
Ave non-productive sow days 69.38 42.2 106.3
  Percent repeat services 12.37 4.95 20.2
  Percent multiple matings 83.47 99.8 57.4
Entry - 1st service interval 31.76 0 62.1
Percent sows bred by 7 days 85.82 94.4 74.9
Weaning - 1st service interval 7.25 5.1 10
Ave parity of farrowed sows 3.49 4.3 2.6
Average gestation length 115.14 116 114
Farrowing interval 147.12 141 157
Farrowing rate 76.19 86.4 64.2
Average total pigs per litter 11.39 12.3 10.6
Average pigs born alive/litter 10.33 11.17 9.6
Average stillborn pigs 0.82 0.5 1.2
Average mummies per litter 0.23 0.1 0.4
Litters less than 7 born live 271.3 39 638
PWM for farrowed and weaned 11.75 6.8 16.8
Old lits / mated female / year 2.25 2.5 1.95
Litters / mated female / year 2.36 2.52 2.12
Litters / female / year 2.22 2.43 1.94
Pigs weaned per litter weaned 9.28 10.27 8.3
Pigs weaned per sow 9.14 10.2 8.2
Average age at weaning 18.93 21.8 15.8
Pigs wnd / mated female / yr 21.46 25.2 17.66
Old pigs wnd / Inv. female / y 19.88 23.9 15.6
Pigs wnd / female / year 20.28 23.8 16.5
Pigs weaned / lifetime female 34.25 50 15